ABSTRACT

For several decades, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 have been the subject of a fierce debate between orthodox and ‘revisionist’ historians. In so doing, however, historians have for the most part neglected to look more closely into questions of a primarily economic and organisational nature in investigating the contributing factors to the American decision-making process. Accordingly, this analysis explores systematically how in addition to the predominant need of avoiding further combat casualties, a speedy conclusion of the Pacific conflict was also deemed critical to a successful re-transition of United States war-time production to a thriving peace-time economy, as well as to a comprehensive rehabilitation of the war-shattered European continent.

摘要

几十年来，1945年8月广岛和长崎的原子弹爆炸一直是东正教和“修正主义者”历史学家之间激烈辩论的主题。但是，这样做的结果是，历史学家在很大程度上被忽视了，在调查影响美国决策过程的因素时，更仔细地研究了主要是经济和组织性质的问题。因此，该分析系统地探索了除了避免进一步战斗伤亡的迫切需求外，如何迅速结束太平洋冲突也被认为对成功地将美国的战时生产成功过渡为繁荣的和平时期经济至关重要，以及对饱经战火的欧洲大陆的全面复兴。